Opposition positions with criticism for failure of 5.6m-euro education project

The value of this project amounts to over 5m euros.

Vetevendosje Movement MP Mirlinda Tishukaj-Sadiku said it is unacceptable to fail this project.

There's an international agreement that has been passed to the Assembly. How are more than 5m euros paid and the process fails in all phases? These are citizen taxes. Minister, in the future you've already seen the digitization of E-Scholl, with all these problems, how will this be addressed. It is unacceptable to enter debt and fail the project. Did you send the subject to the prosecutor and address”, Tishukaj-Sadiku said.

The critic also raised Democratic League of Kosovo MP Hykmete Bajrami, who said that “is unclear how 4.9m euros are paid without having a report of technical accession”.

Even before the auditing report you have known the situation for this project. The project has failed while having no responsibility as from the economic operator, as well as the international one. The audit report reports that the ministry has failed to place contract managers. The information I possess is that no one has agreed to stay in such positions for long. How can all payments be completed without signing reports. For me it is unclear how 4.9m euros are paid without having a report of technical accession”, Bajrami said.

Meanwhile, Education Minister Arberie Nagavci said this project was negotiated during the time it was not the minister.

Nagavci stressed that the subject was sent to the prosecutor for investigation.

The project has been negotiated and implemented in 2013-2016. This project is unprecedented. It's over 5m euros we don't have any product. The project in question has not been functional. As soon as I get my mandate, I wanted this project first audited. Apart from the project being launched without any review, the Ministry of Education has not even had competent officials for the process since. When I accepted the job, I was informed at meetings I had informed that a next project worth 5m euros was initiated, but that we did not take such an action to continue the” project, she added.

Nagavci said they cannot verify whether this system could ever be functional.